Cattle are commonly moved between geographic regions by using commercial transport
carriers, and the vast majority of cattle are transported at least one time during their lives. Both handling and travel associated with ...

Raw milk is an excellent medium for
bacterial growth. The objective of this study
was to evaluate the number of microbes and
component degradation in raw milk. Milk
fat content did not affect bacteria counts. As
storage ...

Fusobacterium necrophorum was the
predominant bacterial isolate from liver
abscesses of feedlot cattle fed with or without
tylosin. The major difference in the bacterial
flora of liver abscesses between cattle groups
was ...

Fusobacterium necrophorum was the predominant bacterial isolate from 49
liver abscesses. Biotype A tended to occur in pure infections and produced a more
severe tissue reaction than biotype B, which tended to occur as a ...

Many studies have reported that barrows gain more rapidly than gilts, but gilts excell in carcass muscling and trimness. Recently, considerable interest has been directed toward determining ration protein needs of barrows ...

Weather-related stressors are a well-recognized opponent to animal welfare and can
have important ramifications for animal performance. Sound animal husbandry practices
historically have attempted to diminish the effects ...

For cattle producers to stay in business, they must apply the business
management techniques used by sophisticated non-agricultural enterprises. Among
these techniques is systems analysis, in which formulas representin ...

Kansas State University, in cooperation
with the Beef Empire Days committee, developed
a new beef carcass index system for
1991, incorporating yield and quality traits as
indicators of carcass merit. Development of
the ...

Beef and beef products are significant parts
of a balanced diet in the U.S. and major parts of
the Kansas economy. Therefore, these products
must be carefully processed, handled, and
monitored for microbial quality to ...

Poor grazing distribution is a major problem on rangelands of the western United States. Grazing animals tend to congregate in areas near water, shade, and level terrain. These areas typically become overgrazed, while less ...

Hines, Robert H.(Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service, 1986)

One of the important, recurring decisions that each hog producer must make is the weight at which to sell hogs. The decision to sell hogs may be influenced by cost and availability of feed, anticipated market hog price ...

Hops have been used for centuries to control bacterial contamination in beer production.
Today, alpha acids are extracted from hops for use in flavoring beer, leaving residues
that are rich in beta acids. Beta acid ...

Various percentages (1.2% to 13%) of β-
cyclodextrin (β–CD) were added to water or
pasteurized whole milk to study β-CD crystallization
patterns. Influential factors such as
crystallization time (4 to 12 h), ...

One hundred seventy five steers (902 lb
initial body weight) were used in a finishing
study to determine the effect of betaine,
provided either as feed-grade betaine
(Betafin-S6, Finnsugar Bioproducts) or as ...

Crossbred heifers (756 lb) were used to
evaluate the effects of feed-grade betaine on
animal performance and carcass characteristics.
Heifers had ad libitum access to a finishing diet
without betaine or with 4, 8, or ...

This study examined the economic effects of applying controllable management factors for farrow-to-finish operations. Average producers in Kansas market 7 pigs/litter with an average feed conversion of 4.58. Improvement ...

Connective tissue, from the outside of three
major chuck muscles, was evaluated for binding
properties when incorporated either raw or
following preheating into precooked,
restructured beef. Food-grade gelatin was ...